'ls' question, splitting and files with spaces in their name...

[Madison Kelly]

As often happens, just after posting I saw the '-Q' switch which adds 
double quotes to the file name so I can split on that first. I decided 
to use 's/\n//' rather than 'chop' (which I had been using) and 'chomp' 
because it seemed more intelligent to me. I couldn't see any way that 
the $_ would not end in a newline but I figured it was better safe than 
sorry so I wanted to cut only newlines instead of indescriminately 
chop/chomp'ing.

Madison (who wishes to remind people that she is a n00b programmer and 
open to critique!) :p

Jim Rootham wrote:
> Hi Madison
> 
> Try adding the switch, then substituting a magic char for the escape-blank
> combo, then do the split.  Check for magic char first if you're paranoid.
> 
> BTW why s/\n// rather than chomp?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>>  My problem is that I am just straight splitting on spaces and some
>>files and directory names have spaces in them. I read the 'ls' man page
>>and the closest thing I could find was a switch to add an escape
>>character before the space but that would only be marginally helpful.
>>
>>  What I need is some way to show the file or directory name with some
>>other character instead of a space so that the first split will leave
>>the file or directory name intact wherein after I could substitute the
>>space back.


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